Over the Purple Hills: Or, Sketches of Travel in California of Important ...
Over the Purple Hills: Or, Sketches of Travel in California of Important ...
Caroline M. Nichols Churchill
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These boats run up a river known as Napa creek, which empties into San Pueblo Bay. All these rivers and streams in the vicinity of the ocean are affected by the ocean tides, the waters usually being very brakish from the close proximity to the sea, and shallow when tide is low or out, and high enough for simple naviga- tion when tide is in. While one of these little crafts was being loaded, a dear old mother cat and two half-grown kittens were lending their assist- Digitized by Google NAPA. 77 ...ance. The removal of a bag was watched with the greatest possible interest, and woe to the mouse or rat that was. unhoused in the presence of these faithful servants. I was told that they work all day with the men as diligently as any hand in the building. A branch of the insane asylum is located at Napa. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars were appropriated by the State Legislature in 1871. The last session there was another appro- priation of six hundred and thirty thousand dol- lars. The building is not yet finished and more money must be voted before it can be.
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